Names quotes

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◆ It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.

- W.C. Fields100

◆ I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain.

- Kate Morton99

◆ It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things.

- Ray Bradbury99

◆ Emilie. A beautiful name for a beautiful girl.

- Marissa Meyer99

◆ names are a way to keep people in your mind

- Maggie Stiefvater99

◆ You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya—life—to me.

- Jane Yolen99

◆ A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it? That the complex, contradictory individuals we are can be called up complete and whole in another mind through the simple sorcery of a name.

- Charles de Lint99

◆ Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous ...

- Suzanne Collins99

◆ Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the world for it is that place.

- Cormac McCarthy99

◆ If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

- Confucius99

◆ Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze.

- Terry Pratchett99

◆ Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.

- Galileo Galilei99

◆ Names are not always what they seem.

- Mark Twain99

◆ The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.

- W. Somerset Maugham99

◆ He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn't know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name.

- Ben Aaronovitch99